Learn RubyOnRails in 30 minutes
Recently, there was a couple articles posted (here and here), regarding how long it takes for a person to become familiar with a toolset. In light of these articles I found this job advertisement today and thought it was rather amusing.
Qualifications:
- A thorough understanding of ASP.NET (or a similar server-side web platform, such as J2EE, PHP or Ruby on Rails), not only the language, but the community, libraries, resources and best practices
- Experience with CSS, DHTML and JavaScript
- Experience with AJAX (an asset)
- A knack for usability design
- A working familiarity of databases (SQL & Oracle)
- Able to learn in half an hour, given access to a web browser, anything on this list
- Familiarity with Macs (an asset)
I am really kickin’ myself for spending all that time reading books and working on whatever I could to help me learn a new language/framework, when all I had to do was to check out the internet for 30 minutes.
